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This seems to be the version published in an Argentinian magazine: https://borgestodoelanio.blogspot.com/2017/05/jorge-luis-bor...

Totally agreed. Also feel this feeling of "moral superiority" is at play even when the complainers are not in a position to exert any power -- otherwise worthless people throwing m…

"It's not that power corrupts, but that power attracts the corruptible", said mr. Frank Herbert...

A point i didn't see mentioned is that the talk about "having the balls" is all about the fear-of-monads being overblown and unjustified, and in this context making unfunny jokes a…

Not exactly answering the question, but: Many times "You're so arrogant!" is just a way to stop an argument. It is a way to derail the topic into some unmeasurable subjective trait…

Regarding (3) -- To grasp someone else's approach or point of view is inherently difficult. Thus we are all arrogant by default. Even though every person has their own way of expre…

Dance. I'm serious. In dancing your bodily similarities and dissimilarities to your partner are in your face all the time, the fitting of them is (in a way) all there is to dancing…

Also Lynn Margulis. http://discovermagazine.com/2011/apr/16-interview-lynn-margu...

Be that as it might, that is not Dawkins' idea (i believe the foremost thinker in that regard is W. D. Hamilton), what Dawkins did was just giving it the catchy name.

'Guns, Germs and Steel' is pure geographical determinism, dressed up as something else.

I think the whole issue is that Facebook prioritizes the "addictive" nature of the feed. That is, their number 1 metric is clicking, so they have a very very narrow idea of what "e…

one fax machine alone...

actually, a shortcut to the message queue ( https://www.facebook.com/messages/ ) has the same effect to me...

anyway, i can't help thinking this forms such a powerful combo with another post very close in time... http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5247237

To me, it all his arguments about "truth" boil down to "I'm into AI and don't bother me with Sociology", which is a terrible shame once he actually tries going into sociology. Sinc…

We all have pandoc, and I suspect the reason is that MD does conform to the end-to-end principle. Having a spec is, itself, putting too much intelligence in the pipes. Not having a…

so basically trolls == Dunning-Kruger?

Having been involved in something like web development around 99-2001, then living under a rock for some years, then coming back around the time mozilla "phoenix" thing started rol…

He hates that the skeumorphic things are patronizing, but, there you are, in a word, the very nature of Apple: patronizing.

Structural complexity (the internals) against functional complexity (the use) reminds me that worse is better because overengineering selects orthogonality into unimportant problem…

I really like the opening statement of the post "all good design is moral design", but i find it completely baffling to see it dispensed like that, like simple statement of fact. I…